Swaffham's a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The town's situated 20 km east of King's Lynn and 50 km west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 29.57 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland. History Its name came from Old English Swǣfa hām = "the homestead of the Swabians"; some of them presumably came with the Angles an… (More on Swaffham)